Just when Lu Zhifan was panicking, Li Xin's army had already entered Datong at this moment, and he was not in a hurry to go south, because he had received the news that Tian Fuzhen had sent someone to send a horse the day before. The attack of the Turg army on Ningwu Pass is just a key part of his arrangement, and the so-called luring the enemy to go deep also has to give him a little sweetness.

I believe that soon he will be able to get the good news that the Taiyuan New Army of the Three Guards Army has won victory. As a result, Li Xin decided to sit in Datong, where he appeased the people and collected the soldiers of the various guards who had been defeated and fled by the Tatars.

On the surface, this place was controlled by Wang Pu and others, but in fact it was a place where the big bosses of the DPRK and the central government passed guò Datong and the various Jin merchants to make profits. Now that the Tartars have completely destroyed the officialdom ecology here, Li Xin just cleaned up the mess in one fell swoop, making it completely the sphere of influence of the Shanxi General Military Mansion.

Then he needs a temporary candidate to control Datong, and this person is none other than Mao Weizhang. But he was afraid that he would not be able to support him alone, so he supplemented him with Qian Tai. Although he had been fully mentally prepared, he was still deeply shocked by the tragic situation in front of him after arriving in Datong City. In the past, Datong was an important town, not to mention how prosperous, but the city wall was majestic and waiting, and it was completely the appearance of the world's Xiongguan, but it was not expected that it was only a few months, and the original Xiongguan Weicheng was only left with ruins today.

Wang Pu, the general of Datong Town, has long been missing, and the acting king of Pingfan here has also been displaced in the war. After some detailed investigation, Li Xin could basically determine that the list of Turg Massacres did not include the Dai Wang's family. Before the Tartar army broke through the city, their family had already left Datong City. It is now raining in the west of Datong Castle and taking refuge in Hirakawa.

Knowing that the Dai Wang's family did not die, Li Xin's heart finally had some comfort, although the Dai Wang was not a good bird, but after all, he was a vassal king of a place, if it fell into the hands of the Tartars, it would be a big blow to the face of the Ming Dynasty and the morale of the Ming army.

Mao Wei, Zhang Jianyì, and Li Xin personally went to Yunchuan Wei to welcome back the Dai Wang's family, but this mention was categorically rejected by him. Mao Weizhang was puzzled by this, although he did not despise the acting king, but the act of welcoming back the vassal king here was a sign that the situation had been completely controlled by the Three Guards.

"Now is not the time to welcome back the king, if it is not bad, Datong has been completely reduced to an undefended empty city before the destruction of Turge."

Mao Weizhang was shocked for a while, "How?" Could it be that they, they didn't even resist, and completely gave up their defenses against the ...... that was second to none in Datong Mansion?"

The defense of Datong City is unparalleled in Datong Mansion, and it is only second only to Taiyuan in Shanxi. Li Xin immediately crossed the banks of the Taihe River in the east and west, pointing to the ruined Datong City not far away.

"You see, although this city wall is dilapidated, there is no trace of it after a long battle, and there are not even a few corpses, but it is like you will be burned and destroyed directly, if they have resisted to the death, the craters of cannons and rolling wood and stones must be all over the city, but the city is extremely clean, only those collapsed city walls are covered with bricks and rammed earth that has been turned up under them......"

All indications indicate that although the burned Dacheng was terrible on the surface, it actually did not go through any major battles. In this regard, Mao Weizhang is almost unimaginable.

"As far as the lower officials know, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong Town, can also be regarded as brave and strategic, how can he be, how can he flee without a fight?"

The corners of Li Xin's mouth sneered, what kind of virtue Wang Pu was He already had a deep understanding of when he was in the first war in Gaoyang, this product is almost the same as the reputation in history, fleeing without a fight, greedy for money and cowardly, these words are almost tailor-made for him.

All kinds of signs show that both the acting king and the general soldier Wang Pu fled in large numbers before the Tartars besieged the city. In other words, almost all of the original bureaucratic system of Datong Mansion is still there, but they have all migrated to Yunchuanwei in one fell swoop, and if they are all brought back at this moment, it will be tantamount to increasing the constraints on the Three Guards in vain.

"Don't think about the king's affairs, let's not pick him up, he will inevitably send someone when he learns the news. Now we are racing against time, we must do our best to restore the Datong Brother's Guard, reconvene the military households that have escaped, and reintegrate them according to the new model of the Three Guards. ”

Li Xin's intentions were self-evident, and Mao Weizhang no longer mentioned the matter of taking back the acting king. However, he didn't mention it anymore, but the king of the dynasty was really as Li Xin guessed, after hearing that the Three Guards had arrived in Datong City, he sent an envoy to ask Li Xin to send troops to protect the king and officials at all levels in Datong to return to Datong City.

Mao Weizhang was quite angry about this, this acting king was really as the general said, when the catastrophe was imminent, he fled westward with the bureaucratic system of the entire city, and surrendered such a majestic city to the Tartars, and finally led the Ming Dynasty to destroy the nine-sided town that had never fallen for more than 200 years.

The one who came to ask for help was the general judge of Taiyuan Mansion, named Zhou Jin. According to the rank, this person is a subordinate official of the Taiyuan prefect, belonging to the civil official sequence, both in rank and status are much higher than his own military attache to suppress the appeasement, if it is left in the past, he categorically has no capital to refuse, only unconditional obedience. But now with the support of the great general Li Xin, he was angry that these people were in danger of the imperial court and only cared about their personal escape, so he refused to see this person, so that people settled him well, and then ignored him.

It's just that this Zhou Jin doesn't seem to be a fuel-efficient lamp, and he spreads the news that he and the general used to be old acquaintances, and he is quite a friendship, trying to force Mao Wei to see them as much as possible. Mao Weizhang didn't know much about Li Xin's past, and Li Xin didn't mention anything about his experience before coming to Sanwei. Therefore, even core figures like Mao Weizhang in the Three Guards system did not know about the general's previous experience and the officials at all levels related to it.

But after all, Mao Weizhang has been immersed in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and he will not simply ignore it, so he sent someone to inquire about the news in private. But there are many coincidences, the soldiers found an experience in the vicinity of Datong City in the Shaanxi Xingdu Division commander envoy, this person's surname Zeng Mingdang is said to be an old acquaintance with Li Xin, so he confirmed the truth of what the envoy of that generation of kings said.

Mao Weizhang didn't know much about the origin of Zeng Dare's experience in the command of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, but Qian Tai, who assisted him in collecting the defeated troops of the Datong Guard, knew a lot.

"Mao Zhenfu, this Zeng Dare does have an old relationship with the general, and the two of them came to Sanwei to take up the post at the beginning."

"So, this Zeng dare is also the old man of the great general?"

Qian Tai sneered and responded to Mao Weizhang.

"Even if you are an old man, you can also be considered an enemy!"

So he concisely introduced Zeng Dazai's many restrictive behaviors with Li Xin to Mao Weizhang. These secret things are almost not circulated in Sanwei, and many people have never even heard of Zeng Daqi, if they hadn't worked with them at the front desk, I'm afraid it wouldn't be very good.

"Since there is an old relationship with the general, you and I still report it to the general, and the general will decide."

Originally, Qian Tai wanted to ignore this matter, but Mao Weizhang's advice was obviously more thoughtful, so he nodded in agreement. Both of them are the calmers of Zhengwupin, and they were both promoted by Li Xin after his arrival, and they are both Li Xin's henchmen, and the two cooperated for the first time and had a tacit understanding at first sight.

Sure enough, after Li Xin heard that he had found Zeng Kang's whereabouts, he immediately ordered Mao Weizhang to send this person to his general's camp. However, for the envoy of the acting king, Zhou Jin, the general judge of Taiyuan Mansion, ignored it, and even ordered that this person be strictly monitored and not allowed to leave lightly.

It seems that Zhou Jin and Zeng Dang both had been enemies of the general, but the difference is that the general is obviously more wary of the former, not out of personal prejudice, but because the former's ability should be better than the latter.

This made Mao Weizhang wake up greatly, and immediately sent additional manpower to strictly supervise Zhou Jin, the envoy of the acting king. After all, this person was the general judge of Datong Mansion, and if Tang took the opportunity to disrupt the situation, he would have the trust of the general.

In the camp of the great general outside Datong City, Li Xin had just received the news from Lu Jiu, Lu Zhifan was really stimulated after being driven to Hunyuan Prefecture, and he had lost his trust in his subordinates, and Lu Jiu did not capture this remnant enemy according to the previous plan, but followed them all the way south to find Turge.

Li Xin put down the letterhead in his hand, and Lu Zhifan's experience made him sigh. Once upon a time, this person was also a Ming official who stood up and fought for the Ming court, and his determination to die was not small, and his will to fight was not strong, but after experiencing defeat and capture, he surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This is not just an example of Lu Zhifan, in the Ming Dynasty, there are definitely not a few capable and loyal ministers like Lu Zhifan, but there are very few people who can see death as home after their lives have entered a desperate situation.

Li Xin was puzzled by this, if they could subvert the values they had pursued all their lives in a certain moment, then the so-called Confucianism, the so-called Three Principles and Five Constants, in their eyes, were just a rag that could be discarded at will.

In the end, these so-called civil officials still care about themselves, they can't not be afraid of death, but they are afraid of dying with nothing to do, so they would rather bear the infamy of traitors? Li Xin tries to interpret the traitors of this era from various directions, but human nature is complex, and the more he tries to interpret it, the more conclusions he gets, sometimes even contradictory.

At this time, Zeng Dare came, Li Xin said, although this Zeng Dare is narrow and reckless, at least he is not a traitor, I don't know whether to be happy or ......